"adultery" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of being unfaithful in a marriage, for example: "The adulterous relationship between the wife and her lover was eventually discovered."
More recently, it chose to ride out the Tiger Woods adultery storm, sticking with the golf star when other sponsors dropped him.
But according to research, FGM still has high support in areas with a lower standard of education, where proponents claim mutilation makes women less likely to commit adultery.
Wyndham had just outlined the violence and murkiness in Homes's dark satires of American life: a jailed paedophile, a girl who picks up used condoms and inseminates herself, car crashes, adultery, murder.
Anne, Henry VIII's second wife, was executed on May 19 1536 for alleged treason and adultery.
A gay couple have no obligation to make that vow because they do not have to forsake all others because they cannot divorce for adultery – there is no requirement for faithfulness.
I've watched too many couples miraculously negotiate tough times – from addictions and serial adultery to bi-polar disorder – only to fall apart once the normality they aspired to becomes reality.
In a heterosexual marriage, a couple can divorce for adultery, the legal requirement is if you have sex with a member of the opposite sex.
In 1980, a British television documentary, Death of a Princess, based on the true story of Princess Misha'al and her lover, who were publicly executed for adultery, led the Saudis to expel Britain's ambassador and impose sanctions, much to the London establishment's discomfiture.
This corruption is emblematised by sexual infidelity: as in Gatsby, Fitzgerald again used adultery to suggest a larger world of broken promises and betrayals of faith.
In his dissent in Lawrence, Justice Antonin Scalia said the case would mean the legalization of "bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality and obscenity".
Amnesty reckons that 23,392 people are living under death sentences worldwide for crimes including treason, embezzlement and adultery.
